If it isn't included on a straight "sophmore" album list, I don't fu*k with the list.

He went from a straight Eminem (biggest artist at the time) backed (decent) album, to a straight underground BEAST of a CD. Nobody heard of any of those producers (besides DJ Premier) on it. He just ripped it so hard throughout that you had to listen.

The question is greatest sophmore album of all time. From top to bottom its easily "life after death" whats beef & n*gga'z bleed >>>> the whole mobb deep cd
mo money, mo problems & sky is the limit >>>>> fugee-la & ready or not
notorious thugs & hypnotize >>>> still d.r.e. (written by jay-z)kick in the door >>> which actually was a nas diss
we can go on and on hands down the best 2nd cd without made up rhymes like the score which can be argued as the best also but long live the greatest "big -life after death"

its easy to forget that ATLiens, The Infamous, and Liquid Swords were actually sophomore albums since they were so much better than the first. So I gotta say these three stick out, but when I read the title, the first album that popped in my head was Late Registration

too many people sleep on Southernplayalistic..sh*t is a classic as well